October 30 in Medical History
23 entries: discoveries, epidemics, drugs and the people who shaped medicine.
Events
- Approximately 20 people die in Bradford, England, UK, after being poisoned from ingesting sweets that had been accidentally adulterated with arsenic trioxide.
- Holocaust: Anne and Margot Frank are deported from Auschwitz to the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, where they die from disease the following year, shortly before the end of WWII.
- 20 people die and 6,000 fall ill due to smog in Donora, Pennsylvania
- Michael Woodruff performs the first successful kidney transplant at the Edinburgh Royal Infirmary in the United Kingdom
- German ex-nurse Niels Högel admits in court to killing over 100 patients, making him one of the world's worst serial killers
- England's Second LockdownUK Prime Minister Boris Johnson announces a second four-week lockdown for England
- Indonesian medical tragedy as 157 children have died from kidney injuries this year due to contaminated medicines, according to authorities
- E. coli cases in the US linked to McDonald’s Quarter Pounders affect 90 people, with one fatality and 27 hospitalizations, likely due to slivered onion, according to the CDC
- English rock band Coldplay plays first show in their history without all four members on stage, as bassist Guy Berryman takes ill just before showtime at Marvel Stadium in Melbourne, Australia
Born on this day
- Georges Gilles de la TouretteFrench neurologist, hysteria specialist, and namesake of Tourette's syndrome, born in Saint-Gervais-les-Trois-Clochers, France (d. 1904)
- Dickinson W. RichardsAmerican physician (Nobel 1956 - development of cardiac catheterization and the characterisation of a number of cardiac diseases), born in Orange, New Jersey (d. 1973)
- Gerhard DomagkGerman bacteriologist (Nobel Prize 1939 in Physiology or Medicine - first commercially available antibiotic and marketed under the brand name Prontosil), born in Lagow, Brandenburg (d. 1964)
- Ragnar GranitFinnish neuroscientist and physiologist (Nobel 1967 - discoveries concerning the primary physiological and chemical visual processes in the eye), born in Helsinge, Finland (1900-1991)
- Daniel NathansAmerican microbiologist (Nobel 1978 - discovery of restriction enzymes and their application in restriction mapping), born in Wilmington, Delaware (d. 1999)
- Desmond FitzgeraldIrish medical doctor and President of the University of Limerick (2017-20), born in Dublin
- Dan PoulterEnglish physician and politician
Died on this day
- Henry DunantSwiss humanitarian and co-founder of the Red Cross (Nobel Peace Prize 1901), dies at 82 (1828-1910)
- Charles Tupper6th Prime Minister of Canada (Conservative: 69-day term in 1896), dies of heart failure at 94 (1821-1915)
- Lillian Carter (née Bessie Lillian Gordy)American nurse, mother of US President Jimmy Carter (1977-1981), and writer, known as Miss Lillian, dies of breast cancer at 85
- Ernest H. VolwilerAmerican scientist and co-inventor of Pentothal - world's most widely used anesthetic, dies at 99
- Nise da SilveiraBrazilian psychiatrist (made advances in occupational therapy), dies at 94
- Michael PalmerAmerican physician and author (born 1942)
- Juan FlavierFilipino physician and politician (born 1935)